Vietnamese · Tiếng Việt
Stop nodding politely when you don't understand.
Order phở without pointing at the menu. Crack a joke with the lady at the market. Tell the taxi driver you actually live here. AnhEm gets you there in ten honest minutes a day.
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Why learn Vietnamese?
Belong, instead of visit.
Vietnamese people open up the moment you say more than cảm ơn. Get invited to dinners, weddings, family fish sauce arguments.
Stop paying tourist prices.
Knowing the numbers and a few negotiation phrases can save you 30 to 50% on motorbike rentals, market shopping, taxi rides.
Connect with people who matter.
Your partner's parents, your kid's friends, your coworkers. Speaking their language changes the entire relationship.
It's easier than you think.
No conjugations. No tenses. Just tones and word order. With the right method (this one), you'll be holding real conversations in months, not years.
Sentences you'll actually use
"How spicy is this?" "I'm waiting for a friend." "Can you make it to my address?" Real life, not textbook drills.
Memory that doesn't quit
The same algorithm used by med students cramming anatomy. Every sentence comes back exactly when you'd otherwise forget it.
Real Hanoi voices
Train your ear on the tones you'll actually hear in Hanoi, Hai Phong, on a phone call from your landlord. Not robot TTS.
Ten minutes. Every day.
That's the deal. Ten honest minutes beats one hour a week, every time. Streak guilt? Not here. Show up when you can.
The science: why this actually works
The forgetting curve.
Ebbinghaus, 1885: you forget 70% of new information within 24 hours, unless you review at the right moment. AnhEm picks that moment, every time.
The testing effect.
Roediger & Karpicke, 2006: actively recalling beats passive re-reading by two to three times for long-term memory. So every card hides the answer until you've tried.
Desirable difficulties.
Robert Bjork's research: the small struggle of trying to remember is what burns memory in. AnhEm makes you work just hard enough. Not more, not less.
A century and a half of psychology, distilled into ten minutes a day.
What ten minutes a day actually gets you
Week 1 · ~70 sentences
Greetings. Numbers. "How much?" Ordering food. The first phrases that turn a tourist into a guest.
Month 1 · ~280 sentences
Holding short conversations. Asking directions. Phone calls with the landlord. Small talk that doesn't feel small.
Month 3 · ~840 sentences
Comfortable in everyday situations. Jokes start to land. You stop translating in your head and just understand.
Month 6 · 1700+ sentences
The whole curriculum. Real conversations. Family dinners. Work meetings. The country, opened up.
Skip a day? No drama. The algorithm catches you up.
More than just you
Bring your family along.
Up to 2 profiles per account, each with their own progress, pace, and even target language. You learn Vietnamese, your kid learns English. One subscription, two journeys.
Schools and learning centres.
Dedicated plans for classrooms, language schools, and education programs are on the way. Bulk profiles, teacher overview, classroom-friendly pricing. Get in touch if you'd like to be on the list.
How it works
One sentence at a time. Hear it, try to understand, reveal the translation, tell the app whether you knew it. The algorithm decides when to bring it back, days or weeks later, just before you'd forget.
Ten new sentences a day. Reviews of what you've learned. After three months you'll have hundreds of phrases burned into long-term memory. After six, you're holding real conversations.
The Vietnamese in AnhEm is the Northern variant. It's the version you'll hear in business, on TV, and across the upper half of the country. Southern variants will follow.
Why I built this
I'm Marcel. I live in Ninh Bình, Vietnam, and I'm busy, like everyone. But I wanted to actually speak the language.
The most fun thing in life, for me at least, is real contact with real people. Not pointing at menus. Not nodding politely. Properly talking, getting the joke, hearing what they say back. You don't really know a country until you can do that. And once you can, the country opens up to you completely.
The apps I tried were too gamified, full of phrases nobody says, and made me feel guilty for missing a Tuesday. So I built the one I wished existed: real sentences, native voices, ten honest minutes a day, and an algorithm that respects how memory actually works.
Then I realised: Vietnamese people learning English need exactly the same thing, maybe more. Tourism, work, education, opportunities. English opens doors here. So AnhEm goes both ways, with the same care on both sides.
That's also why it fits schools and language centres so well. Not to replace teachers. Nothing replaces a great teacher. AnhEm is the daily practice engine they don't have time to provide themselves.
Marcel, Ninh Bình
In six months, you'll wonder why you waited.
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